Biggus Titus of Oxford University

I see the batshit signal has gone out on Reddit....

I think think a codpiece/gimp mask protest from the women in his classes would be fair comment - I would love to see how the university authorities who are either sanctioning or turning a blind eye to this would deal with a bunch of women very seriously expressing their gender identities and relieving their dysphoria by the prominent wearing of peen prosthetics

Twaddle - this isn't 'eccentricity' it's 'parading your fetish in public do you can get turned on at work by it'

I'm not sure how much the discomfort of others should affect how we present ourselves tbh. There are general societal standards eg cover your genitals but beyond that it's pretty much up to the individual isn't it? Do you think women's clothing choiced should be policed or just mens? If men want to wear false breasts or dresses or make up let them.

We’re all simply existing. That’s all most of us can do.

This is Oxford University. Eccentricity is part of the job spec.

It's not "for existing", though, is it? It's for coming to work dressed this way. That's pretty explicit throughout the thread. So why not engage with it and argue your actual case? As nois says, cliché gets you nowhere, especially when it's a lazy misrepresentation of the issue at hand.

Surely he wouldn't win, though?

I’ll pass. @AStonedRose is more deserving of him.

Because they can’t do anything. What he probably wants is to be challenged and then to take the University to tribunal. It would blow up. If they let it play out he will hopefully lose interest or leave. He’s not on a permanent contract and he has no departmental connection. He will be making next to nothing as a college lecturer.

You think that is just existing? Your definition of just existing is skewed. Just existing would be living under the radar, not deliberately bringing attention to himself, not craving attention. This man is the polar opposite of just existing. 🤨

Yes, just what I was thinking. Well @AStonedRose has claimed him on their behalf, so I guess he does belong to them. Whadja think guys? D'ya wanna claim this one or not?

Oh please...

LOL. You think the TRAs would claim this bloke as one of theirs?!!!!!!

Give over.

This, one million times this.

He is sexually harassing the women in the workplace. He should be disciplined for this behaviour, it is not appropriate in the workplace, just as wearing a full gimp suit would not be or a massive fake dildo outside your clothes.

And I bet also if a normal female academic came to work one day with massive fake boobs and a hugely revealing shirt she'd be spoken to.

I know someone who works at Oxford. His comment on the TIMs there is 'they come to work looking like they work in the porn industry - no actual woman would be taken seriously or allowed to keep their job if they did so'.

Indeed but imagine a woman with large breasts (or even small ones) wearing such a revealing garb to a lecture. She would be "dealt with" by the management.

Very funny 😁

Yet another thread exposing a man with a sexual perversion that he thinks is appropriate to display in the workplace.

There you go, fixed it for you. You’re welcome.

I find it very poignant that this is being revealed at the same time as a Cambridge academic, Simon Goldhill, is being called out as a predator after groping female students and forcing unwanted kisses on them over a career of many decades. There is a general acceptance now that what he did was wrong. (The shocker is that he was allowed to continue over many years after the debate seemed to have ended over whether this stuff was ok or not.)
And now we have a brand new way of using sexualised behaviour to teach women students that their comfort and safety matter less than that of men, that they are less, that public spaces should be dominated by men.
The other tragedy is that it’s St Hilda’s which used to be a women’s college.

I wonder what the students think. They live at St Hilda’s and study and dine there. This guy doesn’t appear to have a DPhil so what are they thinking? Imagine Paying to send your child to Oxford to be taught by an unqualified fetishist.

And if it was someone wearing blackface working for Oxford University? I guarantee they'd be sent home the same day, investigation immediately underway, and a massive exercise in damage limitation with apologies for anyone offended in an effort to avoid reputational damage.

But, it's only bloody women, they can get over themselves, eh? The bitches.

I don’t think anyone knows what universities are for, anymore. Increasingly they’re sausage machines whose only purpose to bring workers up to the required level of functioning.

I suppose the original intention, whether of the university or of the colleges, was the advancement of education, learning and research but that, demonstrably, now encompasses any old bollocks. Since there’s a fine line between, say, alchemy and medicine, it’s plausible that some of what was taught in universities centuries ago would now be considered untenable. But then, theology has always been taught in universities and, in contrast with anthropology, that’s also a conundrum.

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